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Five Kohutian postulates : psychotherapy theory from an empathic perspective /
"In comparison with the traditional notion of science as generalizable and predictive knowledge, Five Kohutian Postulates presents psychotherapy as a science of the unique. It uses the philosopher Imre Lakatos's emphasis on research programs that organize around a central postulate and aux...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Jason Aronson,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In comparison with the traditional notion of science as generalizable and predictive knowledge, Five Kohutian Postulates presents psychotherapy as a science of the unique. It uses the philosopher Imre Lakatos's emphasis on research programs that organize around a central postulate and auxiliary postulates to explicate Heinz Kohut's self psychology. Kohut's psychotherapy theory entails four auxiliary postulates that are interlinked to the central postulate of empathic understanding and to each other. The main chapters illustrate how these postulates function as orienting stars in theoretical space to foster a firm psychotherapeutic identity and to concurrently foster the inclusion of complementary ideas from other psychotherapy theories. These chapters also reveal how self psychology exemplifies Lakatos's idea that the most valuable scientific theory is regenerative. The last chapter points to the need for postmodern psychoanalytic psychotherapy to take seriously the idea of a professional commitment to the patient."--Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 277 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-260) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780765706355 0765706350 1282499068 9781282499065 9786612499067 6612499060 |